Author:  alahaka  Posted:  Apr 25, 2018 02:15  Subject:  Minifig head graphics reduce visual info  Viewed:  107 times  Topic:  Suggestions  Status: Already Exists Cancel Reply	BrickLink ID Card alahaka (645) Location:  USA, California Member Since Contact Type Status Feb 1, 2006 Seller   Store: Sairai
Hi, I guess default photographs of Minifig Heads (specifically their expressions and facial features) are being replaced with graphics. I find the angled, turned-away graphics (example (a) below) notably less visually informative than straight-on great photographs of a Minifig Head's expression and facial features (example (b)). Please retain good photographs as the default image for shoppers. If a large effort is underway to create angled, turned-away, less clear heads, I do not understand how this loss of immediate (i.e. default) visual presentation data constitutes a site improvement. In addition to, for example beard/brow/cheek/glasses alignment details, a straight-on photograph also informs the shopper of a Lego paint scheme's older or newer production art quality. Even if the great photographs are retained as alternates to the default graphics, BrickLink administrators are adding more process steps to get to the best information available, which is more time-consuming for users and illogical beyond uniformity. I can obsess by the way, and love nice shiny rows of similar thingies, but not if such uniformity is going to make any customer process more difficult. Lastly the type of stud is no big deal for my uses, so I do not need a partial top-down view. I suspect this is true for most shoppers. Apologies if my overall image transition guess is mistaken. Thanks for listening, Matthew

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Re: Minifig head graphics reduce visual info - axaday (7302)

[...] You can monitor new pictures coming into the catalog and see that there is no effort going on to replace head pics with lower quality pics. While there is an effort [...] (74 months ago, Apr 25, 2018, to Suggestions)

Re: Minifig head graphics reduce visual info - Admin_Russell

[...] That is not the case. For a somewhat detailed expression of the current catalog image policy, please see here: (URL) As stated under Preferences: "For decorated parts [...] (74 months ago, Apr 25, 2018, to Suggestions)

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 Msg 1 « - alahaka (645) 74 months ago Apr 25, 2018 to Suggestions
 Msg 2 - axaday (7302) 74 months ago Apr 25, 2018 to Suggestions
 Msg 3 - Admin_Russell 74 months ago Apr 25, 2018 to Suggestions